Eric Fischl. Gemälde und Zeichnungen 1979-2001 - Schjeldahl, Peter & Annelie Lütgens & Jörg S. Garbrecht - and others

KORTE INHOUD

Painter Eric Fischl gained fame in the 1980s for his critical and provocative portraits of fellow Americans. This volume presents a representative cross-section of his work.nnEric Fischl, who was born in New York in 1948, became known in the eighties for his paintings of mercilessly revealing moments in the lives of the American middle classes. Among the painters of his generation, which includes David Salle and Julian Schnabel, Fischl is widely recognized as engaging most intensely with this typical American theme. As Fischl himself says, painting is a process that turns thoughts into feelings and that uses form and color to create meaning. His urge to go beyond painterly parameters and to allow for subjectivity and content onto his canvases links him to younger painters like Luc Tuymans and Elizabeth Peyton. In the nineties, Fischl found new impulses and topics: foreign cultures, religious rituals, age, and death now take center stage. The motifs in his most recent series are based on digitally manipulated ...
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2003Uitgever: HATJE CANTZ VERLAG GMBH & CO KG136 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3775713786ISBN-13: 9783775713788

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